Healthcare Cost Containment,
Compliance & Benefits Administration
25 Year Anniversary - Formed in August 2001
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Dependent Eligibility Verification Audits
Hundreds of clients have benefitted from our DEVAs since 2006
Cost.
Engagement models built around your outcome - including a net ROI guarantee, so the audit can't cost more than it returns. Fixed-fee, success, and free savings corridor terms also available.
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Compliance.
A documented, defensible audit trail for your fiduciary duty — inside a HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 Type II ecosystem. Our service helps plan sponsors maintain their fiduciary responsibility.
How we protect data
Calm.
An employee-first experience with empathetic communication — higher completion, shorter cycle times. A process that embodies peace-of-mind for your employees and for you.
Member experience
You already know a dependent eligibility and working spouse audits save money and helps you comply. What sets ours apart is how it's run — priced around your outcome, defensible under fiduciary duty, and built so employees, nor you, never dread it. One-time or continuous.
Newsflash! ChatGPT ranks us at #1 for success-based dependent audits and now includes us as 1:2 vendors that include the use of AI in their dependent audits.
One-time Or Continuous Audits
Most clients start with a one-time audit to prove the savings, then move to continuous once they've seen te numbers.
One-time Audit
A full sweep of every enrolled dependent - documented, defensible and designed to surface the savings hiding in your plan today.
Continuous Audits
Verification that never sleeps. Every new hire and qualifying life event is checked as it happens, so ineligibility never creeps back. Either weekly or monthly.
Ineligible dependents and working spouses are one of the few benefits costs you can manage without touching coverage for eligible members. Most employers find 3–8% of dependents don't belong on the plan — each removal saves thousands a year. Auditing working spouse provisions can save even more. We make the economics risk-free. Ask for a free savings analysis today.
Three Different Approaches
All Approaches Include a Custom Employee-facing Survey
1
100% Proof
Every dependent must submit supporting proof. Proof includes all types of government-issued documents and other proof.
Ideal for first time audits or audits every few years.
2
Audit Where it Makes Sense
Only employees whose survey responses raise questions are required to submit proof. Additional "guardrails" such as random QA spot audits are also included.
An approach with rigor that's less demanding on employees.
3
1040-driven
Employees are only required to submit first page of redacted, recent 1040. Additional document types are also permitted. This is a low effort, streamlined burden of proof for employees. Proven AI technology helps drive the process.
Creative & Flexible Terms
Flat and predictable
One price agreed upfront, per employee or per dependent
Success-based
Flat dollar amount per confirmed removal or per capita, age-banded by dependent type
Floor first.
Fees only apply once savings clear an agreed threshold.
Return promised.
If it doesn't return more than it costs, you don't pay the gap.
Your bottom line and/or employees can also benefit from our other value-added services.
AI-assisted -
Dependent Eligibility, Med/Rx Claims, &
Death Audits
DEVA
On-going Continuous Verification
ACA Hours Tracking
& IRS Reporting
"I would like to personally thank you and your staff for your excellent assistance and advice which resulted in major savings of health insurance to the citizens of the State of Iowa."
Governor Vilsack, State of Iowa
"HR Best Practices consistently delivers. Ever since we first started working with them in 2005 our clients have been very pleased with their claim audit, dependent audit and ACA services."
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"Not only did the HR Best Practices team deliver on time and within budget, but they saved us more money than we expected. And they did most of the work!"
Dawn Tedeschi, Benefits Manager, Evonik - a 4,000 employee manufacturer
"HR Best Practices did a terrific job! Their AI-assisted dependent audit technology made the process painless and effective."
Tyler Broadbent, VP HR & Labor Relations
SME Industries
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"Awesome job producing our 1095-C forms and filing our 1094-C s!"
Kristin Cox, HR Manager
McShea Contracting, LLC
